Environmentally Conscious Real Estate of Cincinnati

YEAH! I received my home energy via email (Energy Que tries to be a bit more green by not printing materials).  I’ve resisted to print the file myself (all 66 pages) as well.  Here is the low down on my house:

The first section provides me information on my baseline data.  It utilizes the NOAA heating
degree days for the Cincinnati area and my energy usage from the power company to determine my homes efficiency rate.  I’ve only been in my house 2.5 years, so I didn’t have a lot of data stored up, but its really neat to see that the years we had really cold winter, my energy usage went up as well.   One interesting note is that it wasn’t until last year that I really started using my programmable thermostat religiously.  I was bound and determined to only have my house heat up when I was there.  (If you saw the size of my furnace you would understand why).  So, on my graph I can actually see that the energy usage went down and my efficiency went up!

The next section of my report is all of the thermal images that they took and where the biggest heat losses are occurring.   Below is a picture of my heat ducts in my basement.  As you can see at the  joists  I’m loosing a significant amount of heat from my already inefficient furnace.

Here is another photo of heat coming from one of the only original windows left on my house.   Imagine if I didn’t have new window s or good storm windows on?   There would be a ton of heat loss!

On the 3rd section of my report it gave me a TON of clever ideas on how to help make my house more efficient!  It looks like I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me…  Now that its spring and the weather is nice, I’m not as motivated to fix my leaky problems…  But summer is on the horizon and the AC will eventually be turned on.  I must get ready!